February is Black History Month, also known as African American History Month, an annual time to celebrate the achievements, ...

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new American identity based on deep time. Digging deep into the ground to anchor the ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...

Instead of compelling Canada to become an American state, the 1890 McKinley Tariff drove Canada into British hands.

Yes. Though the Utah War has been called “bloodless,” in reality, Mormon militiamen in southern Utah perpetrated a horrific war atrocity on Sept. 11, 1857, in a valley called Mountain Meadows (which, ...

The enduring strength of the American art market was on display and at Christie’s today as two sales, American Sublime: Property from an Important Private Collection and 19th Century American and ...